Olbermann to tie Rupert Murdoch to William Randolph Hearst and the Spanish
American War. With video.

Olbermann began a segment on his MSNBC show "Countdown" Wednesday
(February 7, 2007) with the story of Hearst sending illustrator Frederic
Remington to Cuba after the explosion of the USS Maine. When Remington
could not find any fighting to illustrate, Hearst sent a telegram back
telling him just to supply the pictures and Hearst would supply the war.

From that, Olbermann jumped to Murdoch telling the international gathering
in Davos, Switzerland, recently that Fox News had tried to influence the
nation's agenda toward war in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
And he went on to say that since then, Fox News has been critical of the
way the war has been executed. (Does he watch the same network that we
do, so that he doesn't have to?)

Olbermann interviewed Air America Radio's Rachel Maddow about the meaning
of Murdoch's admission. Besides saying that it undermines Fox News' claim
to be free of spin and without an agenda, Maddow said it suggests that
Murdoch may be feeling ...